org-xournalpp VS org-excalidraw

Compare org-xournalpp vs org-excalidraw and see what are their differences.

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org-xournalpp org-excalidraw
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- 104
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- 0.0
- 8 months ago
Emacs Lisp
- MIT License
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org-xournalpp

Posts with mentions or reviews of org-xournalpp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.

org-excalidraw

Posts with mentions or reviews of org-excalidraw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.
  • Inline display custom binary files: would it be possible to create a custom image handler?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 25 Jun 2023
    Many packages like org-krita/org-yt/org-excalidraw/org-xournalpp allow custom files to be displayed inline by means of a custom link type. However, they don't work when the file is linked as an attachment, which makes me think that there may be a better way to achieve this.
  • Embed excalidraw in Emacs?
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/wdavew/org-excalidraw is close. I discovered you can install Excalidraw from Chrome, and then it is like a local program. That is pretty amazing in itself. org-excalidraw indeed offers an org-link and way to make an excalidraw file from emacs, edited natively in an external excalidraw window. The svg preview does not work though if you use freehand lines in your image, and I was unable to install the npm packages on my Mac for some uninteresting reason related to DNS, but it did work in a node docker image. I find writing in excalidraw less advanced than in tools like Notability or PDFExpert. There are some artifacts in excalidraw from smoothing, or dangling pixels that I don't love. I forgot I had previously used https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita. Krita is a full drawing program, and this integrates into org-mode with image previews nicely. I am not that skilled in using it, and as a full drawing program, it has a learning curve. I wrote https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-inkscape.el to integrate inkscape into org-mode. It works, but I find inkscape slow to open, and I am not that skilled in using it.
  • org-excalidraw: Manage excalidraw drawings in org-mode. Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 21 Dec 2022
  • Whiteboard in Emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 6 Dec 2022
  • org-excalidraw: manage excalidraw drawings from org-mode
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Aug 2022
    1 project | /r/emacs | 14 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing org-xournalpp and org-excalidraw you can also consider the following projects:

el-easydraw - Embedded drawing tool for Emacs

org-krita - Krita sketches in Org

scimax - An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers

drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io

obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian

ink - LaTeX + Inkscape

excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

dotfiles

org-auctex - Better latex previews for org-mode

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.